Band Update

“For the first time in his career, Young is being backed by group that grew up playing air guitar to “Down by the River” in their childhood bedrooms. These aren’t grizzled veterans that have been burned by Young time and time again, but twentysomethings that can’t believe their luck to be on this journey. Their unbridled enthusiasm is infectious and the entire crowd can feel it. Bassist Corey McCormick is often singing along to the songs when he’s nowhere near a microphone, and when Young makes the impromptu call to bust out something like “Cortez the Killer,” they seem just as thrilled as the audience.”

Neil Young plays “Vampire Blues” for the first time in 41 years
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July 12th, 2015

Neil Young has been part of the musical landscape for well over 50 years. Later this year he will hit 70, and that’s what makes his more than two-and-a-half hour set at Red Rocks all the more impressive.

Young delivers a bit of unexpected magic on the final night of Summerfest

Young then brought out Promise of the Real, the band that plays on the new album. The quintet – featuring a pair of Willie Nelson’s sons – delivered vocal harmonies, pliant rhythms and dynamics that moved from sensitive folk to raging rock and roll.

Neil Young and his recent collaborators, Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real performed an acoustic rendition of their new protest song, “The Monsanto Years,” during an anti-GMO event in Maui this weekend, Stereogum reports.

Behind the Scenes of Neil Young’s New Protest Album ‘The Monsanto Years’ featuring Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real

Last September, just before he took the stage at Farm Aid,Neil Young was hanging out on his tour bus with Willie Nelson‘s sons Micah and Lukas. Out of nowhere, he asked if they wanted to come out and join him on “Rockin’ In The Free World” at the end of his set. “We were like, ‘Fuck yeah, dude,'” says Micah. “It felt great, like we’d been jamming together forever.”

JANUARY 8th, 2015 – We have an incredible announcement to make. Neil Young has honored us by asking us to accompany him on his next recording project! Unfortunately, this means we have to reschedule all of our shows in January except the 17th, but we promise we will make it up to you and in the meantime we will be creating some beautiful music for you all to enjoy. Just as a fun fact, the band actually started when Anthony Logerfo and I met at a Neil Young concert…and the name “Promise of the Real” comes from the lines of a Neil Young song called “Walk On”

“Some get stoned, some get strange…
Sooner or later, it all gets real..
Walk on..”